Product Description

Join Luke and Bo Duke--a couple of good old boys--and their cousin Daisy Duke as they stay just ahead of the sheriff in their souped-up 1969 Dodge Charger The General Lee and have fun thwarting the plots of the corrupt county boss.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: TELEVISION/SERIES & SEQUELS UPC: 085393226428 Manufacturer No: 32264

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #5882 in DVD
• Brand: Warner Brothers
• Released on: 2004-06-01
• Rating: NR (Not Rated)
• Aspect ratio: 1.33:1
• Formats: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Subtitled, NTSC
• Original language: English
• Subtitled in: English, Spanish, French
• Number of discs: 3
• Dimensions: 1.00 pounds
• Running time: 637 minutes

Amazon.com
The Dukes of Hazzard was part of America's redneck fetish in the mid-to-late 1970s, otherwise evident in popular songs, movies, and television shows highlighting fast cars, truckers, citizens' band radio, moonshine, irreverent hicks, and clueless lawmen. Created by writer-producer Gy Waldron and inspired by his own 1975 bootlegging comedy, Moonrunners, Dukes milked seven seasons of material from the tale of a Deep South family of reformed whiskey-makers and their running feud with a greedy impresario and his chief lackey, a buffoonish, venal sheriff.

This three-disc set includes all 13 initial episodes of Dukes from 1979, a period fans fondly recall because some of the programs were shot on location in Covington, Georgia, rather than a Burbank backlot. Also noteworthy is that a couple of key characters, particularly Hazzard County's corrupt lawman, Roscoe P. Coltrane (James Best), hadn't gelled yet into permanent hayseed stereotypes and were arguably more interesting at the beginning. At the center of the action is Sheriff Coltrane's nemeses, cousins Bo Duke (John Schneider) and Luke Duke (Tom Wopat), a couple of wild boys buzzing through the backwoods in the "General Lee," a souped-up Dodge Charger. Bo and Luke are good at heart but have to behave themselves while on indefinite probation, complicating but not halting their efforts to vex Roscoe and his patron, diminutive bigwig Boss Hogg (Sorrell Booke). The enmity runs both ways: Roscoe and Boss Hogg, with the aid of witless Deputy Enos Strate (Sonny Shroyer), dream up ways of eliminating the Dukes--including their wise old Uncle Jesse (Denver Pyle)--but their efforts always backfire.

While every episode is a variation on the previous one, predictability is a virtue in Dukes. The series pilot, "One Armed Bandits," finds Luke and Bo, with help from their sexy cousin, Daisy (Catherine Bach), diverting slot machines (smuggled into Hazzard County by Roscoe and Boss Hogg) to sundry watering holes where they can raise money for Bo's girlfriend's charity. In "Money to Burn," Boss Hogg tries to frame Bo and Luke for robbing an armored truck, while in "Deputy Dukes," the unarmed guys are forced by Roscoe to escort a deadly prisoner from one town to another. The Dukes hit back in "Daisy's Song," investigating a scam that took Daisy for $50 and implicates, of course, Boss Hogg and Roscoe.

Yes, it's a show about rubes, car stunts, and a legacy of moonshine, but there's something comforting about it, in a tongue-in-cheek way. --Tom Keogh

Customer Reviews

Chase's Review
I like this series because it has my favorite car the 1969 Dodge Charger and because they race a lot in it and it has some action like blowing out houses up. Here is a little summery about it Bo and Luke Duke, two cousins living in an unincorporated area of the fictional Hazzard County, Gerogia, racing around in their modified 1969 Dodge Charger, the Genral Lee evading corrupt Boss Hogg and his inept county sheriff Rosco P. Coltrane Bo and Luke had been sentenced to probation for illegal transportation of moonshine- Uncle Jesse usually made the run, but had fallen ill, and on the very occasion that Bo and Luke had taken his place, they were caught. Jesse made a plea bargain to stop brewing moonshine in return for the boys to forgo jail time and instead be placed on probation.

If I give this series a rateing I would give it a 10. If you like this series you will like The Waltons.

My Favorite Season
This was my favorite season of The Dukes Of Hazzard throughout the Dukes whole 7-year run on CBS as well as the season that made this show a big hit back in 1979 when the General Lee was practically brand spankin new and when Enos(Sonny Shroyer) was Sheriff Rosco's fellow deputy for the first time before Enos even got replaced by Boss Hogg's cousin Deputy Cletus Hogg(Rick Hurst) along with the fact that this season shows you how the ongoing dilemma that the Dukes had with Rosco(Jim Best), Boss Hogg(Sorrell Booke), and Enos got started on top of that.

The 1st Season of The Dukes was also funnier than the rest of the seasons of this show and reminds me back to the days when THE DUKES OF HAZZARD was on CBS every Friday night at 9PM right after THE INCREDIBLE HULK at 8PM, plus THE DUKES OF HAZZARD was followed by DALLAS at 10PM in addition to CBS's Friday night line-up back then, which gave me at least 2 more things to look forward to every Friday night.

In addition, this takes me all the way back to memory lane when THE DUKES OF HAZZARD first came out on CBS for the first time back in January of 1979 and was shown around the same time slot as THE ROCKFORD FILES when Rockford was part of NBC's Friday night line-up, which gave THE ROCKFORD FILES a little bit of competition againt THE DUKES OF HAZZARD, since Rockford started getting a slight dwindle in the ratings when the Dukes came along, since a lot of people found THE DUKES OF HAZZARD preferable to THE ROCKFORD FILES along with the fact that THE DUKES OF HAZZARD was a lot funnier than THE ROCKFORD FILES was, plus the General Lee had outclassed Rockford's flashy gold Firebird, plus Bo and Luke Duke(John Schneider, Tom Wopat) were eyecandy that were also a lot younger and more attractive than Jim Rockford(James Garner) was, despite the fact that THE ROCKFORD FILES had enough sufficient ratings for a full Sixth Season on NBC for the following year, even though THE DUKES OF HAZZARD practically K.O.'d THE ROCKFORD FILES, which reminds me that I started watching Rockford less and less when the Dukes came out, since the time slot for THE DUKES OF HAZZARD on CBS kind of interferred with the time slot for THE ROCKFORD FILES on NBC, not that I didn't like Rockford anymore, despite the fact that THE DUKES OF HAZZARD nearly killed THE ROCKFORD FILES during Rockford's last 2 seasons.

Unfortunately, THE ROCKFORD FILES was starting to lose a lot of viewers in 1979, because of THE DUKES OF THE HAZZARD, even though the ratings on Rockford didn't decline to the point where THE ROCKFORD FILES ended up cancelling from low ratings, but was cancelled in January of 1980, which was a year later after THE DUKES OF HAZZARD's debut on CBS, due to James Garner having serious health issues, especially back and knee problems.

What's makes that kind of funny is it just so happens that Sorrell Booke(Boss Hogg) had a guest starring role on THE ROCKFORD FILES in "The Jersey Bounce" episode playing Rockford's attorney.

It was also intriguing to see Joann Pflug in the "Route 711" episode before her days as Colt Seavers agent(Big Jack) on THE FALL GUY, plus I liked seeing Bo and Luke as deputies in the "Deputy Dukes" episode when Rosco deputizes them for a day to nab a hardened criminal to bring him back to Hazzard County.

So I highly recommend The Dukes Of Hazzard-Season 1 DVD to anybody who was a Dukes fan.

Great show, but bad DVDs
I was excited when I received Season 1 of The Dukes of Hazzard, but was upset when the set was defective. I got a replacement set and that too was defective. I eventually went elsewhere to get the set, but again, the set was defective. I started to get a little irritated. Finally I went to another store and yet again, a defective set. 4 defective sets in total. Has anyone had any trouble with their season 1 sets or am I just having bad luck? If I would've had this problem, I would have given 5 stars, but since I had to deal with this aggravation, I give it four.